Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also the chief U.S. agent for Carlos Jader Alvarez, one of the godfathers of her country's drug trade. With careful stroking, Darias had persuaded Navarro to let his firm launder more than $1 million of Alvarez's cocaine profits when Operation Swordfish was abruptly halted, partly because a corrupt DEA agent had blown its cover...
WHEN HUMAN-RIGHTS CHAMPION JORGE CARPIZO MacGregor took over as Mexico's Attorney General early this year, he vowed to crack down on drug traffickers and the corrupt government officials who collaborate with them. Few citizens expected much action. But Mexican police have already killed two drug lords, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo and Emilio Quintero Payan, the alleged leader of the Guadalajara cartel. Carpizo's agents have captured more than 15 tons of cocaine, one-third more than in all of 1992. In one bust, police found 7.2 tons of cocaine hidden in 8,000 cans of jalapeno peppers...
...Piers Paul Read had simply rehashed the same story, Ablaze would have been unexceptional. Instead he has probed deeply into the history of Soviet nuclear power and into the personal stories of people who operated within a corrupt political system to try to make a dangerous, haphazardly designed technology work. Then, just as he did in the 1975 bestseller Alive, he takes us through the accident, minute by minute, describing the deliberate rule bending and honest mistakes that led to the explosion, the terrible bravery of technicians and fire fighters who tried to limit the damage...
...contrast, the world from which Kate Gaffney-Kozinski escapes is seen as numbing and corrupt. Immigration, corporate push and interlocking alliances have threatened the simpler traditions of mateship and the bush. There, the wounded Kate finds honest work as a barmaid at Murchison's Railway Hotel in a place called Myambagh. She acquires a flair for pouring beer, a taste for fattening food and a liking for a chap nicknamed Jelly -- not because of his shape but because he has a way with the explosive gelignite. Amid what Thomas Keneally labels "a safer Australia . . . where people called lunch dinner...
Brown said he was doubtful the imposition of term limits would end corrupt relations between interest groups and political candidates. Such a step would simply be "a new dose of yeast in the cauldron of politics," Brown said...